'Sweet Sentence' is told from the point of view of a westerner travelling in Pondicherry, India.
Julia O'Keefe is a guidebook publisher recovering from a failed marriage to Tim, also her business partner. She is staying in a fading seaside guesthouse run by an esoteric philosophical order, which is filled with eccentric westerners taking refuge and finding sustenance in the spiritual culture of "Pondy".
There is Josh, an American medical student who is trying to absolve guilt over his wealthy upbringing by working with he poor and the sick in Calcutta. An enigmatic Anglo-Italian, Marco captures Julia's intellectual interest and she finds refuge from the harshness of India in his company.
A one-night stand changes Julia's view of India and herself, as she discovers a strength that releases her from dependency, from conventions and allows her to trace a life of her own.
